In Southern California, one last strawberry harvest on Route 66
- Posted on April 26, 2026
- By Chicago Tribune
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In Southern California, one last strawberry harvest on Route 66

California’s fertile farm fields once enticed thousands of Dust Bowl refugees fleeing along Route 66. It lost more than 330,000 acres of agricultural land between 2017 and 2022.